@KateGray - The other side of 30 is about the same for a little while, then towards 40 it starts to all go downhill.
So you have that to look forward to... enjoy it while you can. Not that life becomes terrible as you close in on middle age - but to quote Canadian prog-rockers SAGA "Although the reasons always change, there will never be days like these again."
The difference between something like super Hornio brothers and this, is presumably that this person is presenting these images (and making money from their creation and distribution) as an image of Bowser.
He's not passing it off as a Bowser knock-off, but as Bowser fully out of his shell.
Nintendo probably COULD go after Robot Chicken/Turner television, but that would probably be more trouble than it's worth...and Robot Chicken is pretty up front about being satire while still using the names and likenesses of other companies IP.
It probably would have helped this artist's cause if he had called his creation "Wowser" or altered the base design slightly - but the selling point for such a work is to capitalize on the popularity of the character.
These are private entertainment companies, they have the absolute right to control the release of their product and we have the right to choose to buy it or not if we think it has value.
These people aren't fighting for justice or making a statement...it's just hacking 'cuz their bored.
While it's not the end of the world and I'm not crying for Nintendo here, it's not like they were justified for reasons of consumer entitlement either.
I've largely checked out of anything the big western AAA developers make anymore...just don't care about annualized samey series that sell you a $60 starter kit, and then sell you every scrap of additional content at a premium or behind gambling mechanics.
And for what? So you can have a slightly customized experience of the same derivative game with little innovation?
Not everyone has to like every popular anime. I couldn't get into Attack on Titan, but I love MHA. Just different opinions.
Would have been nice to make this more than a one on one brawler though...like a mission based character action game or a squad tactic game.
Problem with franchise brawlers is that you're always putting incredibly mismatched people against each other. Injustice and the Naruto Ninja Storm games come to mind.
There are a ton of actual garbage ports and the 9 millionth remaster of this or that...
This is the sort of game that people who like this genre like - it's like that band that has total cred and a loyal fanbase for decades, but might not hit mainstream success. You don't have to buy a ticket, they'll sell out decent sized venues to the real fans.
@JayJ - but then Diablo 3 came out and we all realized how great Titan Quest, Torchlight 2, Sacred 2, Diablo 2, and Grim Dawn really are or were all along...
His weapon system looks like a copy of Nafume's shield in The Rising of the Shield Hero...but overall this doesn't look too interesting. It appears to be the sort of game that is very scripted and you basically follow through a series of optimal steps to win each encounter.
But I just bought the amazing ARPG classic Torchlight 2...now the CRPG masterpiece Divinity 2?
Well, at least here I won't be double dipping...I played and loved Divinity Original Sin on PC, but never get around to playing Divinty OS2...
Money is a little tight right now, so I'll probably wait for a sale and give my backlog some love...I still have loads to do in Disgaea 5...which I also picked up on sale recently as my first introduction to a game in that series. (spoiler alert - it's fun!)
While it's a bit slow to start, I think Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is an under-rated gem.
I had a lot more fun with it than Breath of the Wild...and actually played through to the end...more or less forcing myself to stop doing side content so I could wrap it up and start attacking my backlog that I had so neglected.
Even now, I am forcing myself not to jump into Torna because I know all the other games I'm working on now may slip into backlog purgatory forever if I take that up.
Seriously...all three Xenoblade games are amazing in their own right. 3/3 I am a true Monolithsoft fanboy now.
Not too interested in any of these titles specifically, but I absolutely adore the Phantasy Star release and love the bells and whistles added that just make it the game more accessible without changing the difficulty. (although you can play a slightly less demanding version as well!)
I'm mostly waiting for the Shining and further Phantasy Star releases. Being a Nintendo head growing up, I missed out on a lot of the good RPG content on Sega systems.
yes, this looks to have all the same game content as the physical Wii collection I bought used for about $12 USD five or six years ago.
If I remember SSVI or the one that wasn't previously released had a jarring look of HD drawn backgrounds and ripped pixel art sprites. It was so ugly and cheap looking I didn't play it much.
Fortunately SS2 thru 5 were all quite good, and 2 hold a nostalgic spot because one of the local diners I used to get coffee and eggs with my buddies after drinking back in the late 90s had a Neo-Geo machine with Samurai Showdown II on it and we loved it.
@RyanSilberman - I hear you, but Duke Nukem is kind of a dead relic.
Ever since I discovered the Serious Sam games I said "Hasta La Vista Baby" to the Duke and welcomed what have been a consistently better series of games with a better lead character.
@GrailUK - Yes, this is shaping up to be the W S Anderson Hollywood employment project part 2.
The Resident Evil movies are universally thought of as bad movies...they make money I assume, but I would imagine the name sells them, not the quality of the films.
Some video games are very difficult to adapt, Super Mario Bros...is very abstract and whimsical for example. Elder Scrolls are big, slow, and sprawling without a singular focus or notable villains.
But...something like Monster Hunter should be easy. Why create a link to our world? Do they really think in 2018 that people can't relate or view the cinematic world from the point of view of a native to that world?
They do understand the audience for these films will be mostly millenials and gen X who grew up on video games and get this stuff?
Why continue to make these adjustments and compromises to appeal to an older, less video game sophisticated audience who aren't going to see something called "Monster Hunter" anyway?
1) like @sauce said, Hollywood continues to misunderstand gaming, and just can't make a good video game to film adaptation.
2) Paul WS Anderson sucks as a director. He can do flashy special effects with varying results, but even then they often just look overly slick and very fake. His mangling of the Resident Evil franchise in those god-awful films that even made fans of his wife (Mila Jovovitch) stop caring about her career.
Unfortunately, while these games look and control amazing...but come from the late arcade "bullet hell" era of shmups.
You will get a fast, frantic, arcade experience, but it's one predicated on shoveling quarters into the machine while insanely fast patterns of bullets guarantee all but masterful players will simply be re-spawn spamming frequently until the end of the game.
I've played the hell out of this game on PC, recently bought the Ragnarok expansion but haven't given it another full playthrough yet.
This game is really fun, a true classic in any top 10 all time ARPG lists, usually coming in the top 3 for many genre enthusiasts.
I had no idea this was coming to Switch so I was excited to see it. However: as much as I'd like to have this classic ARPG on the go, the $40 price tag for a double dip on an inferior version to the PC anniversary edition with technical issues isn't justified.
I've had the game freeze and crash on me twice now, in addition to some painfully long loading times.
I gave up playing hoping they would patch it, but they haven't. I would buy this on Steam but I waited for the Wii U release and don't feel like giving money to a company twice because of a buggy port.
The page you linked to with the workaround no longer works.
Were you able to get through the game without any more problems? I love the art style and combat system, but I don't want to invest time into something that's going to be a crapshoot on whether or not a half hour of progress is lost at random intervals.
I think as a member of Gen X, I'm part of the first generation since we had "pop charts" to complain that the music of the next generation is too dull, sanitized, and corny.
Especially right now...what is this trend of low energy, meandering, minimalist, snooze-fests?
From Pikmin 3, to Mario Kart 7, to Bayonetta 2, to Xenoblade Chronicles X, to Breath of the Wild...it's pretty much a platform with limited library...but damn is it good.
So it misses a game that happens to be shovelware this time? Oh well.
I think we're definitely in a Silver Age of gaming, with the mid 80s through the mid 90s being the Golden Age.
Why? Well...gaming is more prolific now and more accesible, but it's also lost it's mystique and innocence.
There is so much you can do on a technical level, but the end result is a lot of copy cat games with huge budgets, lots of hype, and short shelf lives easily forgotten when the next big budget, bland, safe sequel is released.
Breath of the Wild is a highlight, and it's one of the gems that will be remembered, but so much just feels like background product meant to provide a polished, but shallow experience with the real goal of getting you to buy all the DLC and renew your annual multi player subscriptions.
It was the mid 80s with Nintendo, Sega, and the Arcades that made gaming a phenomenon that was here to stay. I feel this era is just another evolution of technology improving graphics with occasional bursts of inspired greatness.
The games I could most compare this to are Rastan, Altered Beast, and the original arcade Rygar.
Now, being a NEO GEO arcade port, you'll no doubt have unlimited continues, but otherwise the game is brutally unfair and cheap to maximize quarter eating.
Also, the Engrish translate is pretty epic "you persistent guy" on the "passage to Anderground"...
Having said all that, there is a beautiful weirdness and darkness about the game. Like most action plat-formers of the arcade era, it's a short game, but a spectacle to play through complete with nightmarish scenery and twisted Lovecraftian horrors to face.
EVEN IF...we take what he said in the most forgiving, and best possible context for arguments sake:
1) Assume he used killed as a figure of speech...
2) Assume he didn't know the man had died a year ago, or it just didn't occur to him how that would come off to those that respected him...
Assume ALL THAT...and it's STILL a stunningly arrogant statement to believe that this developer of a mildly successful reboot of a quirky franchise speaks for Iwata, and that Iwata would see Nintendo's situation in the same cynical, bitter, entitled way. To assume Iwata felt shame and constant distress because of the criticisms launched at Nintendo from western gamers and devs. To think he wouldn't be proud of the company he chaired because a console sold poorly and couldn't get western devs on board.
That's the thing...even if you want to insist we interpret the statement your way, it's STILL arrogant, presumptuous, petty, and self-serving.
@jsty3105 - Uh... he died from a bout with a terrible form of cancer that was highly publicized for how sudden it took him.
To suggest that the flaws as detailed by whiny complaints from unsuccessful western devs that never prioritized Nintendo console releases are what led to his death is stunningly arrogant and self-serving.
Even if you have been programmed with an irrational hate for the Wii U as if it were some abomination, Nintendo still managed to release some great games for it, and even launched a new IP or two.
Not everyone views the Wii U and those years for Nintendo with the same blind hate and contempt as the Oddworld guy who failed to sell enough of his late port as he felt he was entitled to.
@impurekind - I think the statement of yours that must be addressed is your splitting hairs over whether Iwata got cancer and died exclusively because "Nintendo sucks" or if it was just a contributing factor.
Seriously? That's your best defense?
I know it's fashionable right now to tell people what they can and can't be offended by, but sometimes people just know a statement is mean spirited and in poor taste, because it sounds mean spirited and in poor taste.
Some smaller devs did quite well on the Wii U. I'm sure you're tired of hearing about Yacht Club Games, Image and Form, and WayForward, but they managed it.
This is one topic where I couldn't agree more with the Nintendo haters and cold water tossers...My Nintendo has nothing but minor discounts on a small number of games that most of us already own.
It's a neat little gizmo, but I played all those games on a real SNES when they were new and spent like $35-65 per cart.
Lucky I had a job busing tables at a local restaurant in high school so I could afford all those great games. We didn't have the internet yet, so we couldn't imagine spending hours clicking refresh on a vendor site to get a collection of old games...
I hate to be the one to say this, but articles like this really just come off as entitled.
Outside of hardcore gaming nerds like us, there isn't much call for these. If they make too many it becomes a novelty item that sits on shelves and cheapens the brand.
@electrolite77 - and yet...most people who actually own one ended up really liking it.
Many of your points are just conveniently plucked narratives like that "confusing" gamepad.
Oh my god...it's a controller with a screen on it, it's not like it's a stick that looks like a TV remote lacking most of it's buttons, wired to a weird grip that looks like a power point clicker with a stick on it...
I'm of course describing the Wii-mote and Nunchuck, which somehow didn't manage to confuse people despite being a much more strange looking concept.
@impurekind - I wanted to read your tirade, but after saying the virtual console was "a total and utter joke" I stopped reading.
Why?
Not because I disagree, but because your responses are steeped with anger, and you are trying to pass off opinions - opinions which perfectly mirror the group-think narratives...as fact.
@westman98 - To Put a finer point on your post, the initial reveal of Super Mario 3D World brought the typical Wii U era outrage and cynicism that gamers had been programmed with.
It wasn't until they cut a second trailer together showing how different it actually is from the 3DS game that people started warming up... Up until it's release it had a lot of lukewarm and negative press with people calling it a re-hash (that was the popular term for Nintendo games in classic franchises at the time) of the 3DS game.
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Re: Feature: The Exquisite Liminality Of Zelda: Skyward Sword
@KateGray - The other side of 30 is about the same for a little while, then towards 40 it starts to all go downhill.
So you have that to look forward to... enjoy it while you can. Not that life becomes terrible as you close in on middle age - but to quote Canadian prog-rockers SAGA "Although the reasons always change, there will never be days like these again."
Re: Nintendo May Have Issued A Copyright Claim To Take Down Some Raunchy Bowser Art
@ImBackBB @Ambassador_Kong
The difference between something like super Hornio brothers and this, is presumably that this person is presenting these images (and making money from their creation and distribution) as an image of Bowser.
He's not passing it off as a Bowser knock-off, but as Bowser fully out of his shell.
Nintendo probably COULD go after Robot Chicken/Turner television, but that would probably be more trouble than it's worth...and Robot Chicken is pretty up front about being satire while still using the names and likenesses of other companies IP.
It probably would have helped this artist's cause if he had called his creation "Wowser" or altered the base design slightly - but the selling point for such a work is to capitalize on the popularity of the character.
Re: Rumour: Nintendo's Internal Development Servers Might Have Been Hacked
@rushiosan
No.
These are private entertainment companies, they have the absolute right to control the release of their product and we have the right to choose to buy it or not if we think it has value.
These people aren't fighting for justice or making a statement...it's just hacking 'cuz their bored.
While it's not the end of the world and I'm not crying for Nintendo here, it's not like they were justified for reasons of consumer entitlement either.
Re: Another Hellish Update For Doom And Doom II Is Now Available On Switch
@Kobeskillz
"Local wireless play and online multiplayer pls."
YES! Local wireless is becoming the under-utilized feature of this console on way too many games.
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition and several other classic PC ports have no excuse not to have this functionality.
We were shown people using local wifi on rooftops Nintendo, on rooftops!
Re: Video: 11 Facts About Children Of Morta, A Roguelite Action RPG Slashing To Switch Soon
This looks quite a bit like Mana Sparks mixed with Torchlight/Diablo
and a dash of Legacy of the Wizard
Re: Metacritic Review-Bombers Strike Again With FIFA 20 On Switch
Metacritic should not be taken as a serious final arbiter of anything.
It's the ultimate in laziness and has been exploited for bad faith reasons too often.
Re: Review: FIFA 20 - A Shamelessly Cynical Attempt To Swindle Switch-Owning Footy Fans
I've largely checked out of anything the big western AAA developers make anymore...just don't care about annualized samey series that sell you a $60 starter kit, and then sell you every scrap of additional content at a premium or behind gambling mechanics.
And for what? So you can have a slightly customized experience of the same derivative game with little innovation?
Re: Bandai Namco Confirms My Hero One's Justice 2 For Nintendo Switch
Not everyone has to like every popular anime. I couldn't get into Attack on Titan, but I love MHA. Just different opinions.
Would have been nice to make this more than a one on one brawler though...like a mission based character action game or a squad tactic game.
Problem with franchise brawlers is that you're always putting incredibly mismatched people against each other. Injustice and the Naruto Ninja Storm games come to mind.
Re: Feature: Puzzle Quest Creator On Remastering A Classic For Nintendo Switch
Had this on Wii, lots of fun.
Re: Review: Torchlight II - A Brilliant Dungeon-Crawler Expertly Ported By Panic Button
@jly1987 - Dude...don't buy it then.
There are a ton of actual garbage ports and the 9 millionth remaster of this or that...
This is the sort of game that people who like this genre like - it's like that band that has total cred and a loyal fanbase for decades, but might not hit mainstream success. You don't have to buy a ticket, they'll sell out decent sized venues to the real fans.
Re: Review: Torchlight II - A Brilliant Dungeon-Crawler Expertly Ported By Panic Button
@JayJ - but then Diablo 3 came out and we all realized how great Titan Quest, Torchlight 2, Sacred 2, Diablo 2, and Grim Dawn really are or were all along...
Re: Little Town Hero, The Next Game From The Creators Of Pokémon, Arrives In October
His weapon system looks like a copy of Nafume's shield in The Rising of the Shield Hero...but overall this doesn't look too interesting. It appears to be the sort of game that is very scripted and you basically follow through a series of optimal steps to win each encounter.
Re: Nintendo Download: 5th September (North America)
But I just bought the amazing ARPG classic Torchlight 2...now the CRPG masterpiece Divinity 2?
Well, at least here I won't be double dipping...I played and loved Divinity Original Sin on PC, but never get around to playing Divinty OS2...
Money is a little tight right now, so I'll probably wait for a sale and give my backlog some love...I still have loads to do in Disgaea 5...which I also picked up on sale recently as my first introduction to a game in that series. (spoiler alert - it's fun!)
Re: Feature: The 50 Best Nintendo Switch Games So Far
While it's a bit slow to start, I think Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is an under-rated gem.
I had a lot more fun with it than Breath of the Wild...and actually played through to the end...more or less forcing myself to stop doing side content so I could wrap it up and start attacking my backlog that I had so neglected.
Even now, I am forcing myself not to jump into Torna because I know all the other games I'm working on now may slip into backlog purgatory forever if I take that up.
Seriously...all three Xenoblade games are amazing in their own right. 3/3 I am a true Monolithsoft fanboy now.
Re: Six More Sega Ages Games Announced For Nintendo Switch
Not too interested in any of these titles specifically, but I absolutely adore the Phantasy Star release and love the bells and whistles added that just make it the game more accessible without changing the difficulty. (although you can play a slightly less demanding version as well!)
I'm mostly waiting for the Shining and further Phantasy Star releases. Being a Nintendo head growing up, I missed out on a lot of the good RPG content on Sega systems.
Re: Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection Sharpening Its Blades On Switch This Fall
@BulbasaurusRex
yes, this looks to have all the same game content as the physical Wii collection I bought used for about $12 USD five or six years ago.
If I remember SSVI or the one that wasn't previously released had a jarring look of HD drawn backgrounds and ripped pixel art sprites. It was so ugly and cheap looking I didn't play it much.
Fortunately SS2 thru 5 were all quite good, and 2 hold a nostalgic spot because one of the local diners I used to get coffee and eggs with my buddies after drinking back in the late 90s had a Neo-Geo machine with Samurai Showdown II on it and we loved it.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 30th)
Picked up Ghost 1.0 on NA eshop for $4.99
Pretty good so far. Humor is a bit cheesy, but fits the comic book/action movie setting.
Another case of a game I thought about buying on Steam, but is more suited to Switch.
Re: Yacht Club Games Reveals Cyber Shadow, A Thrilling New 8-Bit Ninja Platformer
Super rip off of Ninja Gaiden.
I don't care, getting it! looks awesome!
Re: Video: 13 Amazing New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In The Month Of April
I have never played either of those Final Fantasy Games, which one is better?
I have Darksiders Warmastered on two other platforms. I'm not going to buy it at launch, but I bet if it goes on sale I eventually triple dip.
Re: Bulletstorm: Duke of Switch Edition Set To Storm Switch This Summer
@RyanSilberman - I hear you, but Duke Nukem is kind of a dead relic.
Ever since I discovered the Serious Sam games I said "Hasta La Vista Baby" to the Duke and welcomed what have been a consistently better series of games with a better lead character.
Re: Monster Hunter Movie's Milla Jovovich Shares New On-Set Photo To Reassure "Worried" Fans
@GrailUK - Yes, this is shaping up to be the W S Anderson Hollywood employment project part 2.
The Resident Evil movies are universally thought of as bad movies...they make money I assume, but I would imagine the name sells them, not the quality of the films.
Re: Storm Boy: The Game Flocks To Nintendo Switch This November
@BigKing - Wow, is there really "drought" memes for Switch?
Why are you here trolling "Nintendo fanboys" in a video for a rather typical indie game that is clearly not geared to your tastes?
Re: Try Not To Get Too Angry At The First 'Hero' Shot From The Upcoming Monster Hunter Movie
@Akira_1975
Have you seen the absolute garbage that is the Resident Evil film series?
They are all terrible, make no sense, and completely contradict their own canon and continuity.
Re: Try Not To Get Too Angry At The First 'Hero' Shot From The Upcoming Monster Hunter Movie
This should be a no-brainer.
Some video games are very difficult to adapt, Super Mario Bros...is very abstract and whimsical for example. Elder Scrolls are big, slow, and sprawling without a singular focus or notable villains.
But...something like Monster Hunter should be easy. Why create a link to our world? Do they really think in 2018 that people can't relate or view the cinematic world from the point of view of a native to that world?
They do understand the audience for these films will be mostly millenials and gen X who grew up on video games and get this stuff?
Why continue to make these adjustments and compromises to appeal to an older, less video game sophisticated audience who aren't going to see something called "Monster Hunter" anyway?
Re: Try Not To Get Too Angry At The First 'Hero' Shot From The Upcoming Monster Hunter Movie
Two points:
1) like @sauce said, Hollywood continues to misunderstand gaming, and just can't make a good video game to film adaptation.
2) Paul WS Anderson sucks as a director. He can do flashy special effects with varying results, but even then they often just look overly slick and very fake. His mangling of the Resident Evil franchise in those god-awful films that even made fans of his wife (Mila Jovovitch) stop caring about her career.
Re: Psikyo's Strikers 1999 Bringing More Shmup Action To The Switch
Unfortunately, while these games look and control amazing...but come from the late arcade "bullet hell" era of shmups.
You will get a fast, frantic, arcade experience, but it's one predicated on shoveling quarters into the machine while insanely fast patterns of bullets guarantee all but masterful players will simply be re-spawn spamming frequently until the end of the game.
Re: Review: Titan Quest (Switch)
I've played the hell out of this game on PC, recently bought the Ragnarok expansion but haven't given it another full playthrough yet.
This game is really fun, a true classic in any top 10 all time ARPG lists, usually coming in the top 3 for many genre enthusiasts.
I had no idea this was coming to Switch so I was excited to see it. However: as much as I'd like to have this classic ARPG on the go, the $40 price tag for a double dip on an inferior version to the PC anniversary edition with technical issues isn't justified.
A price drop and patches would motivate me.
Re: Earthlock: Festival of Magic
@3DSWiiUFanatic
In the hopes you see this response...
I've had the game freeze and crash on me twice now, in addition to some painfully long loading times.
I gave up playing hoping they would patch it, but they haven't. I would buy this on Steam but I waited for the Wii U release and don't feel like giving money to a company twice because of a buggy port.
The page you linked to with the workaround no longer works.
Were you able to get through the game without any more problems? I love the art style and combat system, but I don't want to invest time into something that's going to be a crapshoot on whether or not a half hour of progress is lost at random intervals.
Re: Random: Don't Forget This Week's Musical Retail Arrival on Wii
I think as a member of Gen X, I'm part of the first generation since we had "pop charts" to complain that the music of the next generation is too dull, sanitized, and corny.
Especially right now...what is this trend of low energy, meandering, minimalist, snooze-fests?
Re: Let's Sing 2018 Is Coming To Switch And Wii, But Not Wii U
Wii U is a true gamers console.
From Pikmin 3, to Mario Kart 7, to Bayonetta 2, to Xenoblade Chronicles X, to Breath of the Wild...it's pretty much a platform with limited library...but damn is it good.
So it misses a game that happens to be shovelware this time? Oh well.
Re: Editorial: Is This a Golden Era of Gaming? Absolutely
I think we're definitely in a Silver Age of gaming, with the mid 80s through the mid 90s being the Golden Age.
Why? Well...gaming is more prolific now and more accesible, but it's also lost it's mystique and innocence.
There is so much you can do on a technical level, but the end result is a lot of copy cat games with huge budgets, lots of hype, and short shelf lives easily forgotten when the next big budget, bland, safe sequel is released.
Breath of the Wild is a highlight, and it's one of the gems that will be remembered, but so much just feels like background product meant to provide a polished, but shallow experience with the real goal of getting you to buy all the DLC and renew your annual multi player subscriptions.
It was the mid 80s with Nintendo, Sega, and the Arcades that made gaming a phenomenon that was here to stay. I feel this era is just another evolution of technology improving graphics with occasional bursts of inspired greatness.
Re: Nintendo Download: 17th August (North America)
@audiobrainiac
Magician Lord is...something.
I love it, but it's so bad it's good.
The games I could most compare this to are Rastan, Altered Beast, and the original arcade Rygar.
Now, being a NEO GEO arcade port, you'll no doubt have unlimited continues, but otherwise the game is brutally unfair and cheap to maximize quarter eating.
Also, the Engrish translate is pretty epic "you persistent guy" on the "passage to Anderground"...
Having said all that, there is a beautiful weirdness and darkness about the game. Like most action plat-formers of the arcade era, it's a short game, but a spectacle to play through complete with nightmarish scenery and twisted Lovecraftian horrors to face.
Re: Rumour: Wii U System Update Hints That Miiverse Is Coming To An End Soon
This is sad news.
I found MiiVerse to be a nice gathering place for people to post screenshots, share their opinions, and some random silliness too.
I knew it was coming when communities for less popular games were being phased out, and some new games (Like SteamWorld Heist) didn't even have one.
It's a shame. I hope they bring it back in some form, but the realization that my Wii U is no longer a supported device is coming to pass.
Re: We Can Now Relive the GameCube Era Thanks to this Joy-Con Compatible Keyboard
Wow, putting a screen on a standard twin-stick controller caused the gaming world to go into convulsions of absolute hysteria and foaming hate...
If this were an official Nintendo product, some might injure themselves from all the knee-jerking and pearl clutching.
Re: Oddworld Creator Lorne Lanning "Has No Faith" In Switch
@PlywoodStick
EVEN IF...we take what he said in the most forgiving, and best possible context for arguments sake:
1) Assume he used killed as a figure of speech...
2) Assume he didn't know the man had died a year ago, or it just didn't occur to him how that would come off to those that respected him...
Assume ALL THAT...and it's STILL a stunningly arrogant statement to believe that this developer of a mildly successful reboot of a quirky franchise speaks for Iwata, and that Iwata would see Nintendo's situation in the same cynical, bitter, entitled way. To assume Iwata felt shame and constant distress because of the criticisms launched at Nintendo from western gamers and devs. To think he wouldn't be proud of the company he chaired because a console sold poorly and couldn't get western devs on board.
That's the thing...even if you want to insist we interpret the statement your way, it's STILL arrogant, presumptuous, petty, and self-serving.
Re: Oddworld Creator Lorne Lanning "Has No Faith" In Switch
@jsty3105 - Uh... he died from a bout with a terrible form of cancer that was highly publicized for how sudden it took him.
To suggest that the flaws as detailed by whiny complaints from unsuccessful western devs that never prioritized Nintendo console releases are what led to his death is stunningly arrogant and self-serving.
Even if you have been programmed with an irrational hate for the Wii U as if it were some abomination, Nintendo still managed to release some great games for it, and even launched a new IP or two.
Not everyone views the Wii U and those years for Nintendo with the same blind hate and contempt as the Oddworld guy who failed to sell enough of his late port as he felt he was entitled to.
Re: Oddworld Creator Lorne Lanning "Has No Faith" In Switch
@impurekind - I think the statement of yours that must be addressed is your splitting hairs over whether Iwata got cancer and died exclusively because "Nintendo sucks" or if it was just a contributing factor.
Seriously? That's your best defense?
I know it's fashionable right now to tell people what they can and can't be offended by, but sometimes people just know a statement is mean spirited and in poor taste, because it sounds mean spirited and in poor taste.
Some smaller devs did quite well on the Wii U. I'm sure you're tired of hearing about Yacht Club Games, Image and Form, and WayForward, but they managed it.
Re: European My Nintendo Rewards Bring Swapdoodle DLC, ARMS Wallpaper And More Discounts
This is one topic where I couldn't agree more with the Nintendo haters and cold water tossers...My Nintendo has nothing but minor discounts on a small number of games that most of us already own.
The freebies are barely worth the effort.
Re: Editorial: The Frustrating Quest for a SNES Mini is Bad Business for Nintendo
@Stubi - But still. It's a novelty item with games currently available in other places from decades ago.
Seems like people are just being salty about their entitlement...but that's just an observation.
Re: Famitsu Readers Choose Super Mario Kart as the Best Racing Game of All Time
Original Super Mario Kart is actually a terrible game that has aged really poorly.
I was never really a fan of racing games until the modern era with true 3D based racing and higher frame rates.
Even from that era, Outrun is more fun.
Re: Famitsu Readers Choose Super Mario Kart as the Best Racing Game of All Time
I think I like Flatout 2 and ExciteBots better.
Re: Rocket League Is Getting Some Free Rick and Morty Cosmetic DLC
Rick and Morty is okay. The show grew on me after a few episodes.
However, most of it's plots and concepts were done better when they were on Futurama.
Re: Editorial: The Frustrating Quest for a SNES Mini is Bad Business for Nintendo
It's a neat little gizmo, but I played all those games on a real SNES when they were new and spent like $35-65 per cart.
Lucky I had a job busing tables at a local restaurant in high school so I could afford all those great games. We didn't have the internet yet, so we couldn't imagine spending hours clicking refresh on a vendor site to get a collection of old games...
Re: Nintendo's Market Capitalisation Overtakes Sony's Following Switch Success
@electrolite77 - I really can't stress this enough: It's a controller, with a screen on it.
I just conveyed the concept to you in one short statement. Both the Wii and the Switch require more explanation for their controllers.
You can insist it's confusing all you want, but it's a controller with a screen on it. We all know what controllers and screens are.
Re: Editorial: The Frustrating Quest for a SNES Mini is Bad Business for Nintendo
I hate to be the one to say this, but articles like this really just come off as entitled.
Outside of hardcore gaming nerds like us, there isn't much call for these. If they make too many it becomes a novelty item that sits on shelves and cheapens the brand.
Re: Nintendo's Market Capitalisation Overtakes Sony's Following Switch Success
@electrolite77 - and yet...most people who actually own one ended up really liking it.
Many of your points are just conveniently plucked narratives like that "confusing" gamepad.
Oh my god...it's a controller with a screen on it, it's not like it's a stick that looks like a TV remote lacking most of it's buttons, wired to a weird grip that looks like a power point clicker with a stick on it...
I'm of course describing the Wii-mote and Nunchuck, which somehow didn't manage to confuse people despite being a much more strange looking concept.
Re: Nintendo's Market Capitalisation Overtakes Sony's Following Switch Success
@impurekind - I wanted to read your tirade, but after saying the virtual console was "a total and utter joke" I stopped reading.
Why?
Not because I disagree, but because your responses are steeped with anger, and you are trying to pass off opinions - opinions which perfectly mirror the group-think narratives...as fact.
Re: Nintendo Switch Sales Surge Past A Million In Japan
@westman98 - It really shows the power of narratives and positive momentum and media.
For Odyssey, the narrative is "It's gonna be the next (Galaxy, Sunshine, 64) Mario!"
Also reminds me of the consoles themselves. We kept hearing how "confusing" the Wii U was, but think about it:
The Wii U: It has a screen on the controller.
Switch: It's a portable, with detachable controllers, that also has a dock that makes it a home console.
Neither are actually confusing if you take 5 seconds to learn what it is.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Gives Its Assessment of the New Nintendo 2DS XL
@PlywoodStick - Was thinking the same thing about the memory card slot.
I heard a lot of horror stories about the New 3DS card access being a pain, so having easy access to the slot was a complaint they addressed.
Also it looks like they threw in a charger (unlike New 3DS) so they addressed the two errors of that model IMO.
Re: Nintendo Switch Sales Surge Past A Million In Japan
@westman98 - To Put a finer point on your post, the initial reveal of Super Mario 3D World brought the typical Wii U era outrage and cynicism that gamers had been programmed with.
It wasn't until they cut a second trailer together showing how different it actually is from the 3DS game that people started warming up... Up until it's release it had a lot of lukewarm and negative press with people calling it a re-hash (that was the popular term for Nintendo games in classic franchises at the time) of the 3DS game.